avoid Intel GMA 600 more than you avoid GMA 500

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 03:01:09PM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote:
>   Ironically, Gentoo Linux is in about the best position to take
> advantage of this chip, given that we can tweak our kernels.  I have an
> older Atom with a a "Poulsbo" GMA500 and here's how my kernel is set up
> in "make menuconfig"...
> 
> Device Drivers  --->
>     Graphics support  --->
>     <*> Direct Rendering Manager (XFree86 4.1.0 and higher DRI suppor
>         <*>   Intel GMA5/600 KMS Framebuffer
>         [ ]     Intel GMA600 support (Experimental)
>         [ ]     Intel GMA3600/3650 support (Experimental)
> 
>   Since I have a GMA500, I haven't enabled the GMA600 support.  See
> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.org.user-groups.linux.tolug/58557 for
> more details.  If this driver is available for Linux, I assume it's
> available in Android.

Any distribution can turn on experimental drivers if they want, and
many do.  What does gentoo have to do with it?

Also having a framebuffer that is terribly slow isn't necessarily much
better than use a vesa frame buffer or whatever currently works on that
annoying chip.

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Len Sorensen
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